Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
AKBAR GANJIRevolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran?
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There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation.
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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When I was on my hunger strike, and I was in a hospital, the guards who inflicted all manner of injustice against me, and all manner of hardship…
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When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.
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Religion is the private affair of an individual…be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion.
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The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the] legal realm.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.
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It began early in the revolution. It was a process that was unfolding on a daily basis. We expected the system to be dispensing justice, but every day that passed by.
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The situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created…we simply wanted to change the regime.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public.
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